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Development and Analysis of an Energetics-Based Model for Trout Populations in Appalachian Streams
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South Carolina Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey: Enhancing relevancy and engaging support from a broader constituency
(Virginia Tech, 2023-01-11)Wildlife viewing is among the fastest growing outdoor recreation activities in the United States, with significant implications for the work of wildlife agencies. While important insights have emerged piece-meal from a ... -
North Carolina Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey: Enhancing relevancy and engaging support from a broader constituency
(Virginia Tech, 2023-01-10)Wildlife viewing is among the fastest growing outdoor recreation activities in the United States, with significant implications for the work of wildlife agencies. While important insights have emerged piece-meal from a ... -
A New Open Education Textbook for Nonmajors: Fish, Fishing, and Conservation
(2023-02-01)Fish, Fishing, and Conservation is a peer-reviewed and student-reviewed open textbook forthcoming in June 2023. License CC BY 4.0. This textbook illuminates the world of fish, fishing, and conservation and allows a ... -
Nonlinearity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Species Distribution Modeling: An Example Based on Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
(MDPI, 2022-12-31)Nonlinearity and spatial autocorrelation are common features observed in marine fish datasets but are often ignored or not considered simultaneously in modeling. Both features are often present within ecological data ... -
Habitat edges influence the distribution of nest predators for Seaside Sparrows, but not nest placement or success
(Oxford University Press, 2022-08-02)Nest failure for coastal marsh bird species is primarily caused by predation and nest flooding. As sea level rise makes nest flooding more likely, the threat of nest predation will constrain the potential adaptive responses ... -
A Comprehensive Overview of Environmental Education: Best Practices for Promoting Belonging, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (BEID) in Environmental Education
(Virginia Tech, 2022-11-30)Environmental education is the process of growing understanding, skills, and attitudes toward the environment in order to engage individuals in environmental problem-solving. Environmental education efforts were established ... -
A comparison of non-surgical methods for sexing young gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus)
(PeerJ, 2022-06-14)Many turtle species have temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), raising the prospect that climate change could impact population dynamics by altering sex ratios. Understanding how climate change will affect populations ... -
Arkansas Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey: Enhancing relevancy and engaging support from a broader constituency
(2022-11-29)Wildlife viewing is among the fastest growing outdoor recreation activities in the United States, with significant implications for the work of wildlife agencies. While important insights have emerged piece-meal from a ... -
Globally Disseminated Multidrug Resistance Plasmids Revealed by Complete Assembly of Multidrug Resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Genomes from Diarrheal Disease in Botswana
(MDPI, 2022-11-11)Antimicrobial resistance is a disseminated global health challenge because many of the genes that cause resistance can transfer horizontally between bacteria. Despite the central role of extrachromosomal DNA elements called ... -
South Dakota Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey: Enhancing relevancy and engaging support from a broader constituency
(2022-12-06)Wildlife viewing is among the fastest growing outdoor recreation activities in the United States, with significant implications for the work of wildlife agencies. While important insights have emerged piece-meal from a ... -
Drugs and Biodiversity Loss: Narcotraffic-Linked Landscape Change in Guatemala
(IntechOpen, 2022-10-13)Characteristic of the Anthropocene, human impacts have resulted in worldwide losses in forested land cover, which can directly and indirectly drive biodiversity loss. The global illicit drug trade is one source of deforestation ... -
Florida Results of the Wildlife Viewer Survey: Enhancing relevancy and engaging support from a broader constituency
(2022-11-08)Wildlife viewing is among the fastest growing outdoor recreation activities in the United States, with significant implications for the work of wildlife agencies. While important insights have emerged piece-meal from a ...